US Plant Patent PP18138

Rebel

Southern highbush blueberry plant named ‘Rebel’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 8, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 7, 2025. This patent earned 1 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP18138, the photograph of Rebel printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP18138, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number: PP18138
Filed: December 7, 2005
Granted: October 23, 2007
Expires: December 8, 2025
Assignee: UNIV GEORGIA RES FOUND
Inventor: NESMITH D SCOTT

Abstract

The most distinctive feature of the southern highbush blueberry, ‘Rebel’, is its combination of early fruit ripening, high yield, excellent fruit attributes especially size and scar, and its excellent plant vigor under field and high density growth conditions.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of southern highbush blueberry plant, substantially as illustrated and described.

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